Trump to Lay Wreath at Tomb of “Removal” President Andrew Jackson on Wednesday

NASHVILLE – Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, will lay a wreath at the tomb of the nation’s seventh president, Andrew Jackson on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. He will do so on the 250th birthday of Jackson.

Among American Indians, Jackson is commonly referred to as the “removal president” and the “Indian-killer” because of he signed the Indian Removal Act that stole millions of acres of lands from tribes that led to forced removal from tribal ancestral lands to west of the Mississippi. The harsh removal campaign is commonly referred to as the Trail of Tears.

While Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, by 1840 the Trail of Tears had accomplished Jackson’s goal to remove American Indians.

Several months after signing the Removal Act, Jackson told Congress:

“It gives me pleasure,” he said, “to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the government, steadily pursued for nearly 30 years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation.”

On Wednesday, Trump will be the first U.S. president to pay homage to Jackson’s tomb since Ronald Reagan did so in 1982.

About The Author

Levi Rickert, a tribal citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is the publisher and editor of Native News Online. Previously, he served as editor of the Native News Network. He is a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

11 Comments

TribalMember and Proud of it.11 months ago

Someone share this on Twitter. I hear a certain someone is fond of the site. A refresher class on the REAL HISTORY is necessary.

Between his use of the spoils system and his past history of anti-native activism, I would say that Donald Trump has a lot in common with Jackson. Too much, actually.

John D. Andrews11 months ago

President Trump is lower than pond scum. His hanging of the picture of Andrew Jackson in the oval office is appropriate since both Jackson and Trump couldn’t care less about the U.S. Constitution.

TolowanWashte'We11 months ago

All the Tribes need to get-together and move off of the Reservations and dispurse into City Life and get jobs and make your lives better than ever before and quit your gripping when another life is still available in America!

INDIGENOUS ANGEL11 months ago

Indigenous Angel doesn’t like your message. Indigenous angel has two businesses and lives on the rez. Another world is possibly. Every settler should pack up and leave.

Shadow Wolf11 months ago

For many years your rabid racist kind has whined that Natives aren’t “assimilated” well enough into your society. Nowadays, your kind whines about every other non-white, non-Christians groups as being the culprit of your “white plight”. Maybe it is you and your kind who needs to learn to get along with mankind. Welcome to the 21st century, loser.

INDIGENOUS ANGEL11 months ago

This is part of their dark rituals. What are they doing with their checkboards and peoples lives? That owl Moloch that they worship. Andrew Jackson is now Jesus Christ to orange poo poo.

To assimilate is exactly what he and all the rest of them want. So they won’t have to force you off your land. They want all land the now not just some of it!
Ignore them they will go away!

Tabasscofries11 months ago

So where’s the tweet?

Angela Molinar11 months ago

there’s reasons why tribes stay on reservational land it’s a spiritual and an elder thing if you understand things like Geronimo did you would know that certain natives don’t want to leave the land and cannot for certain reasons

President Trump is slated to lay a wreath at the gravesite of Andrew Jackson in honor of the late president’s 250th birthday. Trump will soon visit late president Andrew Jackson’s home and burial place, in Nashville, Tennessee. .. This shows his total lack of respect for all Native Indians.

Remember that Trump has a portrait of pres. Andy Jackson in the Oval Office, honoring the “Indian Killer” …[ What did you ( we) expect from a person who the Neo-Nazi’s support!

Let the Water protectors and the Lakota Dakota Sioux Indians at “Standing Rock” remind show us
that they the “white man” will and do violently force Native Indian Americans off their lands They want all the land not just some of it!!! They .. ( the white man” ) will not go away!!!

We must never forget that then pres. Jackson and today pres. Trump couldn’t care less about the U.S. Constitution.

Pres. Trump reveres dear ole Pres. Andrew Jackson, calling him and I am quoting Levi Rickert “an amazing figure in American history — very unique so many ways,” Justly and historically correct all Native Americans, know truthfully however, ~~ that good ole president Jackson was a true villain and responsible for the death of thousands of Cherokee Indians during the forced march of the “Trail of Tears”. The late President Jackson’s “Indian Removal Act of 1830” aggressively pushed Native Americans off their ancestral lands.

As on the [ Cherokee Nation wrote on its website. ] … so truthfully and historically accurate state…
“The Cherokee were rounded up in the summer of 1838 and loaded onto boats that traveled the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers into Indian Territory. Many were held in prison camps awaiting their fate.”

As I have said in other posts and remarks, I only wish that the author, publisher and editor of Native News Online would write in Op-Eds and summit this article to other media outlets such as FSTV , Democracy Now, PBS, NPR and possibly MSNBC and CNN, also including independent newspapers and University & College newspapers, such as UNLV’s Scarlet and Grey newspaper.

Trump’s past history of “anti-native activism”, I would say that Donald Trump seems to have lot’s in common with Jackson.

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